50 The 'Remains at Pagan. [No. 1. 



sort of pair with another pagoda of similar appearance, in front 

 of a small temple of the church character, and the possible object 

 of the incrustation was to make it symmetrize in size with its 

 neighbour. 



In passing eastward from the pagoda just mentioned we arrived 

 at the Skive San-daw, a large and lofty pagoda of the Rangoon and 

 Prome type, on a high pyramidal base, and apparently once gilt. 

 Near it, our attention was attracted by a long gabled house, lighted 

 by a few small windows with flat arches in brick of a peculiar con- 

 struction. Looking in, at a small arched doorway, we found the 

 house to contain a Brobdignagian figure of Gautama recumbent 

 on his side. It was built apparently of brick plastered. But a 

 finger of the hand from which the plaster had been knocked off, 

 was seen to be of sandstone gilt, as if some part at least of the 

 colossus had belonged to a former image of more splendid material.* 

 The eyes were open, and the face, which was the best part of 

 the figure, wore the usual placid smile. The vault of the long 

 chamber in which it lay was painted, rudely enough, with over- 

 shadowing palm-trees. The dimensions of the recumbent giant 

 were as follows : 



Top of head to fork, 35 feet 5 inches. 



Forktofeet, 33 „ 6 „ 



Nose, 3 „ 3 „ 



Width of chin, 2 „ 2 „ 



Length of ear, 6 „ 10 „ 



most of the Topes examined in Afghanistan and the Punjab show signs of these 

 successive increments, and successive deposits, one above the other." (Sand-booh 

 of Architecture , 1. 9.) 



The same peculiarity is found in some of the Nubian pyramids, and in the 

 Etrurian tombs. (Id. p. 291.) 



* These gigantic figures are probably direct imitations of what ancient Bur- 

 man pilgrims had seen in Ceylon. At Dambool in that island, says Forbes 

 (I. 370,) a " chamber contains a gigantic and well executed figure of Buddha 

 recumbent, and the statue, as well as the couch and pillow on which he reclines, 

 is cut from the solid rock. This figure is 47 feet in length. The chamber is 

 long, narrow and dark; Gautama Buddha's position and placid aspect, the 

 stillness of the place, all tend to impress the visitor with the feeling that he is 

 in the chamber of death." 



